writer in Chicagoland. all publications here: https://www.evanderlang.com/ reader for @fracturedlit.bsky.social and Hypertext Magazinehttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3ln2pzutuz22dgod I love this energy. Gonna buy some champagne specifically to get on this wavelength. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Apr 2025 03:56 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln2pzutuz22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3lgrffrmww22hwe are very much in the Imperial Boomerang stage of American decline so this checks out [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jan 2025 02:20 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgrffrmww22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3lfr46ppu2c2cwould really love to see more Democrats start talking like this. you're in a fight, act like a fighter. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jan 2025 06:10 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfr46ppu2c2chttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3lf2kpmzkvk2oCould not agree with this more. When my word count goal was super high and I had a day I knew I wouldn't have time to hit it, sometimes I didn't write at all. I don't even use a WC goal anymore, just "do something on the novel," and my work rate has never been higher. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Jan 2025 06:59 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf2kpmzkvk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3ldwaphlf5s2dThere is nothing I miss about filmmaking more than when an actor does something unexpected with the script or the blocking, something you’d never think of in ten lifetimes but now you can’t imagine them not doing. You feel like you’re floating. All the best parts of art-making are like this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Dec 2024 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldwaphlf5s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3lbkncq6duc26Come listen to some good reading at Roscoe Books on Sunday! [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Nov 2024 18:47 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbkncq6duc26https://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3lbaalf5v2k25Thank you to all my new followers! I'm a Chicago-area writer who writes surrealist hauntings. I'm currently in revisions on my first novel. Here are my published short stories if you feel like checking em out! www.evanderlang.com/work https://www.evanderlang.com/work18 Nov 2024 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbaalf5v2k25https://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3k3ujmxv7352lthe reason i post so infrequently is that i have no passing thoughts. i think when i am writing, and all the rest of the time, the inside of my brain is just sort of humming in repose. like the inside of a refrigerator01 Aug 2023 03:11 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3k3ujmxv7352lhttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3k3m2rqmiwq2qeither JOHN WAYNE for The Pinch earlier this year, or my first-ever published story, BUSINESS, which is right here – https://www.thesatirist.com/stories/business.html [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jul 2023 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3k3m2rqmiwq2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3k3htrw4gqe2zthe brothers Karamazov is really just such a good book. those crazy brothers! they're always up to something crazy and fun 🙂27 Jul 2023 02:08 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3k3htrw4gqe2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3k3e4pjvx252sas a prolific teenage shoplifter (personal best was a Thanksgiving turkey tucked under my coat) i feel this acutely [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Jul 2023 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3k3e4pjvx252shttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3k2qulibu6c22at my friend's wedding last year he grabbed me by the shoulders, looked me in the eye, and said "you mean the world to me," and i will probably still be hearing it in my head when i am dying [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2023 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3k2qulibu6c22https://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3k2p2yu52nb2ei desire only limitless power and influence. i will attain it through short fiction [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2023 05:40 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3k2p2yu52nb2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/evanderlang.bsky.social/post/3k2bfppd7iy2qLooking for a list of my publications? My contact info? Maybe you just want to see an absolutely enormous picture of my face? All that and more, below. https://www.evanderlang.com/11 Jul 2023 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:et465nkrnkgxttkooujle7xe/app.bsky.feed.post/3k2bfppd7iy2q